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Mac: PodWorks 2.8.3 released

By Dennis Lloyd ● Wednesday, April 21, 2004

PodWorks is a Mac OS X (Cocoa) application that compensates for the iPod’s only downside: Apple only allows you to copy songs to your iPod. If you have two Macs and want to use your iPod to transfer music between them, or you only store your MP3s on your iPod and need to copy them back onto your hard drive after a disk failure, you are out of luck!

What’s new in this version:

PodWorks 2.8.3 is a minor update, which fixes a bug that caused the “actively prevent duplicates” preference to not work when transferring only selected songs to iTunes.

License: Shareware $8System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher, iPod
Currently not recommended for use on Yosemite (blue-and-white) G3s.

Comments

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I thought that you could use the Ipod as a hard drive on Macs as well as PCs…

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 13, 2003 at 1:43 PM (CDT)

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Billy,
You can, but the folder containing the music folder is hidden, preventing you from easily copying songs off your iPod.

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 14, 2003 at 8:47 AM (CDT)

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Oh rite.

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 14, 2003 at 3:24 PM (CDT)

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Wish to inform you guys that i have been sharing my 20G of songs with my Mac pal via Audion3. All you have to do is get the playlist of Ipod and drag-&drop; to your Mac. Its the Best and coolest MP3 player for Mac

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 15, 2003 at 12:36 PM (CDT)

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Anyone know of a similar program for Windows?

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 15, 2003 at 10:26 PM (CDT)

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Much prefer iPodRip. It is simpler and has more features for literally the same price.

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on October 8, 2003 at 10:19 AM (CDT)

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You can use EphPod. It will also allow you to copy your songs out. Xplay cant do that. Its free if you are using a Window version Ipod. But if you are using Mac version, you will required to buy a Macopener… about US$40 i think. The other way is to convert you mac Ipod into Window and then use EphPod. Hope this will help

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on October 8, 2003 at 11:13 AM (CDT)

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Fred,
I would say iPodRip has different features than PodWorks, but not necessarily more. PodWorks does a lot of things that iPodRip doesn’t. See here for more information:

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on October 9, 2003 at 9:31 AM (CDT)

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Podworks is amazing stuff. Worth every penny I just paid to register it. By far the most intuitive and simple iPod to Computer downloading software.

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on October 22, 2003 at 3:08 PM (CDT)

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On PC I use “PodUtil” (there’s also a mac version):http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/software/podutil.php, which works pretty well.
However, I’ve found that I can, indeed, view and copy from the “invisible” Music folder on my iPod. Unfortunately the files are organized in some cryptic F0, F01, F02, etc fashion, which makes it a bitch to find the file you’re looking for.

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on November 21, 2003 at 10:34 AM (CST)

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The “folder” on the iPod is not hidden. If you know a bit of Unix you can copy your music from iPod to hard disk with some command line instructions.

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on November 21, 2003 at 2:32 PM (CST)

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Ken,
Yes, yes, everyone knows that by now. However, some people don’t like to have to go into Terminal and fish through 20-odd random directories (F0, F1, F2, F3, etc.) to find the specific file they’re looking for.

Saying that no one should use a program like PodWorks because it’s possible to go through the terminal is like saying no one should use Microsoft Word because vi works just as well.

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on November 21, 2003 at 5:50 PM (CST)

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I would really like to see this app have the ability to play more than one song.

Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on December 1, 2003 at 2:45 PM (CST)